Diverse-Leaf Yellow Cress is an annual or biennial
herb, usually hairless or rarely sparsely velvet-hairy when young,
about 10-30 cm tall, not scapose. Stem is erect or ascending, leafy,
simple or much branched from the base and above. Basal leaves are not
in rosette, usually withered before flowering,
obovate-inverted-lanceshaped in outline, about 2-8 x 1-3 cm across,
margin lyrately pinnatifid, tip blunt, leaf-stalk up to 4 cm long,
lower and middle stem leaves gradually smaller, base eared or not,
margin irregularly toothed, lateral lobes 1-4 if present, gradually
becoming larger towards the tip, leaf-stalk short to nearly stalkless,
upper stem leaves, lanceshaped to oblong, margin entire or sawtoothed
toothed, tip pointed to tapering, stalkless. Flowers are borne in
racemes, many flowered, about 6-10 cm long, elongated in fruit,
ebracteate. Flowers are bisexual, yellow, flower-stalk erect,
divaricate, slender, ascending, about 3-8 mm long, sepals 4, erect,
linear oblong, margin membranous, inner lateral pair base rarely
saccate, about 2-3 x 0.5-0.8 mm across, petals mostly absent or 4,
obovate-inverted-lanceshaped, margins entire, tip notched, usually
shorter than sepals, about 1.5-2.5 x 0.3-0.7 mm across. Stamens 6
rarely 4. Fruit is a siliqua, splitting, linear cylindrical, about
25-35 x 0.7-1 mm across. Diverse-Leaf Yellow Cress is found in the
Himalayas, at altitudes of 1200-1600 m. It is also found in China and
Japan, Malaysia.
Identification credit: Amit Kumar
Photographed in WII, Dehradoon, Uttarakhand.
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